Liam Blunder Byrne strikes again..........

I always thought Liam “Espresso” Byrne was a complete toss pot. Anyone so completely up his own backside as to write and circulate to his staff a piece called “Working with Liam Byrne” could hardly be anything less.

Apparently it is normal for outgoing ministers to leave, for the person taking over their post, a short note outlining anything that they might feel was worth the new minister learning, and which they fear perhaps that the Permanent Secretary might not pass on. Even at a change of government: I imagine that, unless you are a sore loser, the country comes before your wounded pride.

So David Laws, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, was not surprised to see an envelope on his desk from the previous incumbent of the post. He was surprised though when he opened the letter to find the idiot Byrne had written one line: “Dear Chief Secretary, I’m afraid to tell you there’s no money left”.

Mr Byrne claims that the letter was supposed to be funny. Ha, bloody ha! “My letter was a joke, from one Chief Secretary to another,” he said. “I do hope David Laws’ sense of humour wasn’t another casualty of the coalition deal.” Oh dear Liam, sour grapes that they didn’t do a deal with your lot methinks, oh, and to be strictly accurate, it was from an EX -chief secretary to the Chief Secretary.

Liam seems to think that it is a matter for humour that the government of which he was a member, and indeed a minister in the Treasury managed to leave the country in a state where, in fact, there is not only no money, but there is more debt than at any time since the end of the Second World War... and ironically that debt was only just paid off a couple of years ago.

Our Liam is one of these people for whom 'foot in mouth' was invented. Indeed this is the second time in a month that the loose-mouthed MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill has made a gaffe. During the election campaign, Byrne was caught swapping notes with Yvette Balls, the Ex-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, complaining that an event which they were attending was "second tier". Well, you know Liam; it says something for the state of the Labour party that a couple of third rate politicians like you and Mrs Balls were allowed to go to a second tier function. All the second raters must have been busy that day.

Never mind, now you’re a big fat nothing, you won’t get invited anywhere, except perhaps Hodge Hill Bingo and Sale of Work... should suit you nicely.

Working with Liam Byrne.... or NOT working with him any more actually.......LOL LOL LOL!

Pic: Liam the lovely..... being escorted from the premises... and just looking lovely again. As Spooks would say.... wee shame, isn't it.

JACK DROMEY FINALLY GETS JOB IN HIS WIFE'S PARLIAMENT, DESPITE BEING A MAN

In all the ‘excitement’ of the hung or balanced parliament it may have been missed that one Jack Dromey has been elected member of parliament for Erdington in Birmingham, England. I wouldn’t have noticed his success myself had I not happened to switch on the telly to find Paxman being reduced to laughter, or tears, by the man, only just become an MP detailing why, with 50+ fewer seats and 2 million odd fewer votes, Mr Brown was, in fact, the man that hard working British families wanted to take them through the hard days ahead.

Yeah whatever Jack, back to the kitchen now and get Harry’s tea on!

Jack, I should explain for those not in the know, is the husband of Harry Harperson, the would-be, but never was, deputy prime minister whom he met on the picket line of an infamous strike over women’s trade union rights in the mid 1970s.

But Mr Harperson-Dromey is famous for more than that. Oh yes. Mr Dromey, in the position of Treasurer of the Labour party, not a job I’d have wanted, appeared to know not from whence had come £3.5m in loans from would-be lords.

Well, you can’t account for every £3.5m that’s lying around, can you?

In 2006 he came to prominence having claimed that neither he, as treasurer, not the chairman (should that not be “chair”) of the National Executive Committee, Sir, yes, SIR Jeremy Beecham (well, if you can’t beat them, join them I say) had ever been consulted about this money. It must have just been sitting there, heavily disguised as, well, something else.

Then in 2007 he claimed to know nothing at all about £650,000 worth of donations from David Abrahams. You are beginning to wonder at this point why the man is treasurer, and if in fact he is in any way qualified for the job...well, apart from the obvious, that his wife is the deputy leader of the Labour party. Harpy Hardman was actually caught up in that scandal too, as she her staff had solicited and accepted donations from Abrahams of £5,000, according to Wikipedia.

Jack has had parliamentary ambitions for some time. On his first attempt in 1997 he didn’t even make the cut, and so on his second his union Unite, offered a donation of a £1m based on assumption of the safe seat of Wolverhampton NE. That failed too. In 2009 it was decided to parachute him into Leyton, another safe seat, but this proved too unpopular with the local party especially given that it ran contrary to his wife’s all-women shortlists policy.

When, in February Siôn Simon announced that we would stand down at the election, the NEC swiftly announced that Birmingham Erdington would be an open short-list. To hell with women, our Jack needs a job. Our Jack was confirmed to have made that short-list. The same month he was selected as the Labour Party candidate and he was duly elected on May 6. As they say in Punch and Judy “That’s the way to do it”.

My advice to whoever is leading the Labour party after the next Queen’s speech is: don’t let him anywhere near the Treasury brief. He wouldn’t know £3.5m if it was sitting there in front of him in the form of br... no sorry, loans from aspiring noblemen.

Oh, and don’t let him anywhere near Paxman. He would have been Toast, with a VERY big T, if Jeremy hadn’t been up all night and in need of a good laugh! Pathetic just isn’t half strong enough!

Video is not of the Paxman interview, but the story of Dromey's attempts to get himself a cushy billet.

Jack Dromey to fight Birmingham Erdington on behalf of "working people"

Well well. Here’s a surprise. Jack Dromey has been selected as a Labour candidate for the forthcoming Westminster Elections. Jack is Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman's husband, so it was a massive surprise to us all that he did so well in the selection process.


Dromey, who is also the deputy general secretary of the Unite union, has been chosen as the prospective parliamentary candidate for Birmingham Erdington.


Dromey was looking for a safe Labour seat and of course with his connections found it in the Birmingham seat, which was held by Labour at the last Westminster elections with a majority of 9,575.

He was reported to be honoured to have been chosen, although frankly I doubt if he was surprised. He said that he had been fighting battles for working people in Birmingham for 25 years. One wonders if he will continue to do so as a Labour MP. Most of the rest appear to be only vaguely aware of working people's existence.


He said: “I will serve the people of Erdington as a hardworking local MP, punching the weight of a fine constituency that has seen real progress under 13 years of Labour.” Oh Lord, don't they make you laugh? Real progress under Labour? 'Struth!


The current MP, Sion Simon, announced earlier this month that he would be standing down in order to concentrate on becoming the first elected mayor of Birmingham. Simon announced recently that he would pay back approximately £21,000 claimed to pay rent on a flat owned by his sister.

Labour never changes does it? Jobs for the boys and the husbands of the erm.... girls????

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